Dundas Valley School of Art
Charitable organization · Dundas, Ontario · BN 118889484RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,196,954) as filed with the CRA.
Dundas Valley School of Art is a charitable organization based in Dundas, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $2.7M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 9% from government, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $238K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $520 in 2024, the largest being $520 to Canadahelps Canadon. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $2.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Art school providing visual arts education programs to adults and children and outreach art initiatives to community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $3.2M | $2.9M | $237K | $520 | $3.4M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.9M | $2.6M | $245K | — | $3.4M |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $2.3M | $1.5M | $169K | — | $3.6M |
| 2021 | $2M | $1.8M | $1.4M | $107K | — | $3.5M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.7M | $1.2M | $26K | — | $3.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $520 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $238K from 9 charities:
- Incite Foundation for the Arts$183K
- The H G Bertram Foundation$20K
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$10K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$5,989
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,491
- Burlington Community Foundation$5,000
- JTC Heersink Foundation$5,000
- Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation$3,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$706
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Pam Lakin (past chair/director); Constantina Farnan (vice chair/director); Carol Rand (chair/director); John Bainbridge (director); Pam Lushington (treasurer/director); Elizabeth Bourns (director); Robert McDiarmid (director); Kathron Hann (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dundas Valley School of Art’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118889484RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.